“The breadth of scholarship is impressive, and anyone
wishing to learn about colonial Delhi will find this book a
valuable source. What Legg ultimately delivers is a critique of
liberal government, showing how colonial power works in illiberal
ways to assert the domination of the British over the native
population.” (American Journal of Sociology, July
2009)

"The main strength of this book is its conceptual rigour. Legg
draws on Foucault’s recently translated 1978 lecture series
... The book provides a detailed, theoretically informed analysis
of three landscapes of ordering in Delhi, Old and New ... Spaces of
colonialism rewards persistence, and will be required reading for
scholars of urban governmentality, and of considerable interest to
post-colonial and urban geographers more generally." (Area,
March 2009)

"Legg has mined and marshaled his written sources superbly and
his extrapolations of Foucault are lucid and provocative."
(Planning Perspectives, January 2009)

"Legg uses these (Foucault's) well-tried concepts to extremely
good effect in interpreting some fascinating archival material ...
.[The book] also has new things to say about New Delhi and colonial
urbanism generally." (Comparative Studies in Society and
History, December 2008)

"Writers have long recognised that social rules are at a premium
in urban areas, and many discussions of governmentality have taken
cities as their subject. Spaces of Colonialism, a case study
of Delhi in the first half of the twentieth century that is
published in the RGS-IBG book series, makes a significant
contribution to such debates." (Journal of Historical
Geography)

"A path-breaking analysis of colonial urban governmentality. The
author combines a deep knowledge of Foucauldian and (post-)colonial
theory with a careful interpretation of a wide range of archival
data. The result is a stunning re-interpretation of the politics of
late colonial Indian urbanism."
–James S. Duncan, University of Cambridge

"Conceptually nuanced and empirically rich, this book is a
powerful example of the insights a theoretically informed geography
can bring. It is an important and carefully researched work that is
likely to have a significant impact in both governmentality and
post-colonial studies."–Stuart Elden, Durham University

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